Boone's Landing

The ferry crossed here, at what became Wilsonville, from 1847 until 1954. The panel names who did the rowing at the start: the Boones hired local Tuality Indians, Tualatin Kalapuya people, as oarsmen, and Alphonso Boone is said to have insisted on service around the clock. A cable later replaced the oars, the State of Oregon took the ferry over in the early 1900s, and by the 1950s it carried twelve cars a crossing. The Boone Bridge on Interstate 5 opened in 1954, and the ferry was retired shortly after.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Champoeg — 6.3 mi
  The river-bend meadow where settlers voted for a government in 1843, and where the Willamette took the entire town but one warehouse eighteen years later.
• Willamette Falls — 8.2 mi
  A horseshoe of basalt across the Willamette, ringed by a century of mills, that is still one of the last places in the Columbia basin where tribes gather lamprey by hand.
• McLoughlin House — 9.3 mi
  The retirement house of the Hudson's Bay man who supplied the Oregon Trail's starving arrivals, saved from a paper mill's lot in 1909 and hauled up the bluff to a park he had given the town.
• Vanport — 21 mi
  Briefly Oregon's second-largest city, built in about 110 days for Kaiser's shipyard workers, washed away in an afternoon in 1948, and later renamed out of existence.

More markers nearby

• Boone's Ferry — 1.6 mi
• Aurora — 4.5 mi
• Champoeg — 6.9 mi
• George Abernethy — 8.2 mi